That was exactly my question when I read that quote too.
Everything is temporary on a large enough scale and everyone w/i that golden era also thought it would last and that belief is part of why it didn't.
Humans will never build anything that truly lasts for a very simple reason. The lessons learned get forgotten after 2 generations (3 at most). Stop and consider how the US fought for its freedom and how nowadays many people from the US would vote to have more limitations on speech.
> The lessons learned get forgotten after 2 generations (3 at most).
What are you talking about? Did we all forget the Pythagorean Theorem after 3 generations? Did we forget the force-multiplying effect of levers and pullies a few generations after Archimedes died? How can you sit here with Wikipedia at your fingertips and tell me that the collective sum of humanity remembers nothing from over 100 years ago?
> everyone w/i that golden era also thought it would last and that belief is part of why it didn't
Yet from almost every collapsed golden era, scientific progress from that era made its way back to collective knowledge (sometimes very slowly, admittedly). People in this modern age have this extremely simplified view of what "collapse" actually looked like.
What's the difference between data and information?
data is data
information is data with context
The values and lessons learned to build something that truly lasts gets forgotten over time until the thing that was built gets changed into a weaker form as the people involved stop valuing the things that gave it the stronger form.
Everything is temporary on a large enough scale and everyone w/i that golden era also thought it would last and that belief is part of why it didn't.
Humans will never build anything that truly lasts for a very simple reason. The lessons learned get forgotten after 2 generations (3 at most). Stop and consider how the US fought for its freedom and how nowadays many people from the US would vote to have more limitations on speech.